Commotion as friend gets house during bingo on vacation (8)
I believe the answer is:
ballyhoo
'commotion' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'friend gets house during bingo on vacation' is the wordplay.
'friend' becomes 'ally' (an ally is a friend or supporter).
'gets house' becomes 'ho' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'during' indicates putting letters inside.
'on vacation' means to remove the middle letters (after the inside letters have vacated the word).
'bingo' with its middle taken out is 'bo'.
'ally'+'ho'='allyho'
'allyho' placed into 'bo' is 'BALLYHOO'.
'as' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ballyhoo that I've seen before include "Fuss; noisy publicity" , "Blatant advertising - a holy lob (anag)" , "song and dance" , "Much fuss" , "fuss about nothing?" .)